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One of the incongruities of modern industry, according to Reck and Graedel, is that we manufacture modern products with the most sophisticated technologies available yet generally adopt relatively ____________ approaches to recycling them.
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The Federal Reserve Bank is one of the most ____________ institutions in the United States, yet many are not aware of the important operations and activities it has carried out during its lifetime.
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Citing the corruption and intrigue that characterized politics in the city, my colleague ____________ the newspaper's trove of journalism prizes, declaring that finding exciting stories in the city must be effortless.
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The commission's report is free of bureaucratic jargon and, for a document that must have been written by multiple authors, it is remarkably (i)____________ in style. In that respect, the document is an improbable literary triumph; its analysis and recommendations, however, are (ii)____________.
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Some of the characters and themes depicted on the painted glass vessels found at Begram point toward an Egyptian provenance, but Egypt was not the ____________, and perhaps not even the principal place of manufacture.
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Julia's success as an academic scientist came largely as the product of her gift for the scholastic ____________: although definitely not a genius, she had a plodding tenacity and an apparent immunity to drudgery.
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Scholars of the civil rights movement have often characterized it as springing from social, political, and economic structures ____________ the South, thus overlooking the tradition of civil rights activism in other regions of the country.
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Naomi Hossain argues that Jeffrey Sachs' narrative about economic development in Bangladesh is best described as a ____________, since it presents many accurate observations but selectively exaggerates and minimizes for effect.
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Traditionally, deep knowledge of nature had been regarded as ____________; during the scientific revolution, however, free and open communication of research came to be viewed as a sine qua non of scientific progress.
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Although its (i)____________ is (ii)____________, the musical style known as "ragtime" has most often been described as an amalgamation of African American music with European forms.
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Perhaps most (i)____________ to early-twentieth-century critics of outdoor advertising was that their legislative successes did little to diminish the exponential growth of the industry. Indeed, their reform legislation to some extent (ii)____________ industry expansion, as each new legislative action affirmed bill posters' right to occupy all but
specifically proscribed spaces.
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One of the most widespread traits among animals is (i)____________. It runs from (ii)____________, such as yawning when others yawn, to emotional (iii)____________, in which the self resonates with fear or joy when it picks up fear or joy in others.
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When there is less natural dust blowing into eastern China, the air quality for millions of people there (i)____________: natural dust plays an important role in determining air temperatures and thereby promotes winds to (ii)____________ human-made pollution. Less natural dust, therefore, means the air becomes (iii)____________, with pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.
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Margaret Oliphant's literary output was ____________: it included almost 100 novels, 50 short stories, 25 nonfictional works, and in the region of 400 articles published in the periodical press.
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The New York City response to the Astaires was enthusiastic, but in London it was ____________: British audiences had never seen dancers like them, and they associated the pair's seemingly effortless skill with an idea of the United States at its best.
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The ____________ of Lord Kelvin's attack on Darwin for the latter's unsophisticated estimate of the minimum age of the Earth suggests that Kelvin's motives were not entirely scientific.
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As Peggy Noonan's memoir recounts, the hypocritical attitudes she witnessed among liberal fellow-students had a dramatic effect on her political orientation, causing her to ____________ conservatism.
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She was skeptical about the (i)____________reviews of the latest production of the play, feeling that the production she had seen years earlier was (ii)____________, and that any successive attempts must undoubtedly fall short.
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In general, observational studies tend to (i)____________ the effect of diet on overall health because a healthy diet is often (ii)____________ a healthy lifestyle. People who watch what they eat probably exercise more, avoid smoking, and follow other behaviors (iii)____________ good health. Any of those behaviors might also help explain why these people have lower disease rates.
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Pine stumps have been found in discrete layers in peat deposits throughout western Europe and thus represent brief but distinct episodes of bog colonization by pine. Their occurrence implies conditions on the bog surface suitable for colonization, followed by inhospitable conditions for trees that nevertheless facilitated preservation of stumps. Thus, the (i)____________ of pine stumps can (ii)____________ climate change, by (iii)____________ the inference that bog surfaces had dried sufficiently to allow colonization and then became too wet to support the trees.
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